Wang Quzi only returned home, and he didn't have any intention of having fun, so he fell asleep.

It didn't take long for a voice to wake him up from his sleep, "It's not good, it's not good, it's not good." It was the same staff member shouting outside the door.

Wang Qu rubbed his sleepy eyes, lifted the quilt and rushed out directly to shake an ear scraper from the staff, making a loud noise: "Didn't you see me sleeping, what's wrong?" ”

The staff rubbed his face, there was a clear palm print on it, which made you proud for a few more days, and a trace of resentment flashed in his eyes, but he concealed it well: "Master, that brigade commander Li came to the mansion with someone in person." ”

"Damn, why did that guy come to me in the middle of the night without sleeping," Wang Qu scolded and turned around to get dressed, and hurriedly ran out to meet Li Suiqiu.

"I don't know that Brigade Commander Li came to the cold house, and he missed the welcome, so please forgive me." Wang Qu had already put on a smirk.

"Governor Wang, I want to ask you, how many people are there in your Tingzhou City?" Li Suiqiu said lightly.

"Well, it's about 100,000." Wang Qu was a little uncertain, the population had changed too much over the years, and he hadn't made any special statistics.

"Then do you know how many of these 100,000 people can't survive!" Li Suiqiu took a step forward and shouted angrily, so frightened that Wang Qu staggered back.

"This, the lower officials don't know." Wang Qu was about to cry in his heart, he was thinking about being promoted and making a fortune not long ago, but in the blink of an eye, someone came to the door to ask the teacher for his guilt, and he didn't know how to excuse himself.

"Humph!" Li Suiqiu sneered, "Send someone to open the warehouse immediately to release grain, and I will see the distribution of grain and rice porridge to those poor and hungry people immediately after dawn, otherwise I will bear the consequences." ”

Li Suiqiu turned to leave, and the other person continued: "Governor Wang, let's go." "It's Kuang Hong, he wants to bring people to help, and his reputation for loving the people like a son must fall on his side!

The main force rested, Kuang Hong's regiment and the 3,000 defenders of Tingzhou City started work together, the defenders used all the cooking utensils in the camp was still not enough, Kuang Hong was in charge, first specifically looking for those landlords, wealthy businessmen and officials to requisition the tools at home, Wang Qu passively took the lead in demonstrating, and then could only harass the blacksmith shop and restaurant, etc., and borrowed or directly purchased their items, and the money was naturally taken from the pockets of Wang Qu and others.

After dawn, in the Li family's mansion, which has nearly 1,000 hectares of fertile land under its name, the concubine who is deeply favored by the head of the Li family is furious, and scolds her subordinates: "What's the matter, what time is it now, why hasn't the meal been served yet, don't you all want to do it?" ”

"Madam, it's not that the villain doesn't do it, it's really a guy who doesn't cook and cook at home," a steward in charge of the kitchen explained helplessly.

"I don't care, won't you go out to buy it, if you can't eat honey ginger, I'll let you roll it all and leave."

"My heart and soul baby, dissipate your anger," the head of the Li family rushed over when he heard the news, "You guys go down first." ”

"Yes, sir." A few of the subordinates quickly slipped away with a sigh of relief.

"Master, the concubine's stomach is hungry," the concubine leaned on the arms of the head of the Li family and coquettishly.

"You don't know the situation last night, the prefect personally brought soldiers to the door, and I can't help it, the restaurants and restaurants nearby are the same, so I can only temporarily wronged you."

"Master, isn't your second brother a big official in Jinling, that Wang Qu usually nods to you, why is he so bold now?" The concubine was not convinced, and asked with a pout.

"You don't know," the head of the Li family pinched the concubine's chin, "Those soldiers are not from our Tingzhou Mansion, Tongzhi and I are angry, they are from Guangdong, and there are their people everywhere outside." ”

"Guangdong!" The concubine was a little incredulous, "How did they appear here?" ”

The head of the Li family sighed: "Who knows, I'm now thinking about whether to write a letter to ask the second child to resign and come back." ”

The entire Tingzhou City has been plastered with notices last night, and in addition, the news of the arrival of the Ziqiang Army and the release of grain and relief has also been sent by Kuang Hong to beat gongs and drums to walk the streets and alleys, and publicize it door to door.

Soon after the hour, the prefect, Tongzhi and other places in the city to send food and porridge have lined up a long line, crowded, crowded, crowded, many of these people are yellow and thin, life is unsustainable, the rest of the people are also mostly malnourished, it can be said that the people on the ninth floor of Tingzhou City are living very hard.

Where Kuang Hung personally went on the field to distribute porridge, an old man with a withered face handed out his dirty and broken bowl with a missing opening.

Kuang Hong frowned, and ordered to the back: "Come on, change the bowl for this old man." ”

"Huh?" The old man's ears were a little bad, he didn't hear clearly at first, and he thought that Kuang Hong would not give him porridge, and he was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he suddenly panicked, but after a while, a large bowl that was intact and twice his own broken bowl, full of porridge, was delivered to his eyes, and he thanked again and again: "Thank you, thank you, thank you." ”

"No thanks, this is what we should do, and besides, I'm not a military master," Kuang Hong said with a smile, "I, like you, are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and our army commander Han Lin often teaches us that everyone is equal, and these are all done according to his usual instructions." ”

The old man couldn't understand Kuang Hong's last sentence, but he remembered the name Han Lin in his mind, he looked at the broken bowl in his hand, and said tentatively: "Look, can this ......?"

"Of course no problem!"

……

Time back to last night, Huang Gongfu led a regiment to launch a fierce offensive against Beizhai at night, a round of tiger squatting artillery like a cracked bombardment, Beizhai gate and wall like paper paste disappeared, the sky of rockets into Beizhai ignited a fire, just a few minutes, hundreds of people were killed or injured.

Then 1,000 people rushed into the shell village and carried out a unilateral massacre, completely crushing the enemy's resistance, and another 1,000 people surrounded the shell village to prevent any fish from escaping.

Seeing that the strength of the enemy and us was too great, the thousands of households in the shell village could only order surrender.

"Report to the deputy brigade commander, 314 enemies were killed in this battle, 13 of our troops were killed and 41 were seriously wounded." After listening to the battle damage statistics, Huang Gongfu said: "Collect the brothers who died in the battle, leave a platoon to take care of the seriously injured brothers, and watch the surrendered soldiers." ”

"Yes."

At this time, the thousand households were also pressed to Huang Gongfu's side, and before Huang Gongfu could ask, he spoke disrespectfully: "Who are you, why are you attacking our Bei Zhai, do you want to learn from the Yellow Tiger to rebel?" "Huang Hu is a nickname for Zhang Xianzhong.

"Rebellion, you say that if we are rebelling, whose rebellion is it?" Huang Gongfu asked rhetorically.

"Of course it's Your Majesty's anti." Qianhu didn't understand what Huang Gongfu meant.

Huang Gongfu chuckled: "Coincidentally, we are acting on the orders of His Majesty." ”

"Are you kidding me?" Qianhu said angrily, but he looked at Huang Gongfu's smiling expression, and suddenly realized, "You are the army of Guangdong." ”

"Exactly." Huang Gongfu patted Qianhu on the shoulder, "Your martial arts are good, you killed my subordinates the most just now, what's the matter, are you going to rebel?" That's a great sin against the Nine Clans, and you and your remaining hundreds of brothers will be ~ executed first. ”

Qianhe's face changed brightly, and finally two words popped out of his mouth: "Don't dare!" ”

"Very good, I think you are a talent to give you this opportunity, take the soldiers you can still fight and wait to follow us. By the way, Huang Gongfu, deputy commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Contemptible Self-improvement Army, what do you call him? ”

"Jian Chen."

"Chen Qianhu, a gentleman is hard to chase after a word, don't go back on your word." Huang Gongfu looked at Jian Chen with a smile.

"Hmph, I believe in my word, I just hope you don't let us die in vain."

"Hahahaha, we have always treated everyone equally in our self-improvement army, and the same is true for those who submit to us, Chen Qianhu is too worried."

At this time, Chaozhou Pingyuan, Guo Zhiqi, the deputy commander of the Second Brigade, who had been instructed before, ordered the men and horses to march towards the northeast and pointed directly at Wupingsuo.

Zheng Hongkui in the Wuping Institute lost sleep again, although the small force five miles away was still the same, and there was nothing abnormal in the elephant cave to the west. He put on his clothes and walked out of the tent to breathe, it was pitch black outside, there was no trace of stars and moon in the sky, and the coolness of the evening at this time of year came to his face.

A quarter of an hour later, just as Zheng Hongkui was in a better mood and was about to go back to the camp to sleep, he heard a loud roar and saw that something seemed to be flying towards him in the distance.

"Not good," Zheng Hongkui exclaimed, "Quickly dodge the shelling!" ”

"Bang!"

Shells fell into the camp one after another, which were improved flowering shells that could kill and injure the enemy in large areas, and screams reverberated one after another in the Wuhei station.

"General, let me lead the army out and destroy them." A staff member asked Zheng Hongkui for his life.

"Kill your head, use your brain!" , Zheng Hongkui slapped the general on the head, "Such a fierce artillery fire must be their main force, are you the enemy of ten thousand people?"

Hurry up and gather the soldiers, prepare to retreat, and die here if it's too late! ”

"Bang!"

A shell fell beside him and exploded, Zheng Hongkui instinctively threw himself to the ground, his body was sprinkled with dirt, "hiss", he struggled to get up, it turned out that a piece of iron was pierced into his back, and blood flowed, but this was only a minor injury, and he couldn't deal with it.

It took a long time for nearly 5,000 people to wake up from their sleep and assemble, by which time the shelling had stopped, and the enemy could already be clearly seen outside the camp and the murderous charge could be heard. Zheng Hongkui pointed at a guard: "You, bring someone to stop them for me." ”

The garrison wrinkled a bitter gourd face like eating a fly, but he had to obey orders, and his family was all within the sphere of influence of Zheng Zhilong in Fuzhou.

The Ziqiang army had already rushed into the Wuping Station, and the garrison with more than 1,000 people desperately blocked the former's attack.

"Everyone follow me and retreat to Wuping City, they will definitely not be able to attack it." After Zheng Hongkui finished speaking, he took the lead and ran away on horseback, and thousands of people followed in a hurry.

"Made, fight." The bloody nature of the broken garrison was also stimulated, and he drew his sword and rushed forward with a roar.

However, he soon found that there were not many more enemies than on his side, but unfortunately Zheng Hongkui had already fled with the main force.